Packaging News

l CLP Packaging Solutions of Fairfield, NJ and Kibbutz Negba, Israel, won three awards at the annual New Jersey Packaging Executives Club (NJPEC) packaging competition in September. The awards included first place in the food and beverage category fo…

ExxonMobil honored marketers at its 16th annual Golden Mummy and Pyramid awards, held in conjunction with Pack Expo in November. The awards recognized three companies for flexible packaging and four companies for labeling.
Golden Mummy honoree…

Ft. Worth, TX-based ID Technology has been acquired by Pro Mach Inc. This marks the eleventh acquisition of a North American packaging equipment manufacturer by Pro Mach in the past four years, according to executives.
ID Technology manufactures…

Pechiney Group subsidiary Techpack cre- ated Techpack Asia following an agreement with Nrtjahya Tanudisastro, owner of the Indonesian group Tiger. The cosmetic assets of Tiger, including 120 injection presses and six surface treatment lines, will be…

Eastman Chemical Company, Kingsport, TN, introduced Eastar copolyester DN011, an injection-molding grade that is the company's clearest copolyester to date, according to the company. Copolyester DN011 complements other resins in the Eastar line. It…

Georgetown, Ontario-based Mold-Masters has opened its first direct office in China. The operation is located in Waigaoquiao, Shanghai.
Mold-Masters executives said the new office will enhance the company's regional capabilities in the Asian marke…

Cebal Aerosols introduced Boost, a flat- shouldered aluminum can with a flat shoulder. Because Boost is a stock item, it does not require any additional tooling expenditure, Cebal company executives said.
The new Boost can was introduced this sum…

West Pack Label LLC opened operations in Corona, CA in July. The company manufactures pressure-sensitive labels and flexible packaging for the health, beauty and cosmetic industries.
West Pack utilizes the latest and most sophisticated technolog…

West Haven, CT-based O.Berk Company of New England recently purchased Greenfield Associates Inc., New York.
“We foresee a smooth transition in the incorporation of Greenfield’s customers and inventory into our New England facility,&rd…

LionstarCorp, Birmingham, UK, appointed Evansville, IN-based Berry Plastics Corp. as a U.S. licensee of its spray technology. The technology is based on the ability to manipulate spray and achieve benefits such as a reduction in VOCs, flow control, s…

MeadWestvaco Corporation announced plans to permanently shut down eight sheeting machines used to convert rolls of paper into sheets at the company’s Luke, MD, paper manufacturing facility in 2003.
In addition, MeadWestvaco will expand shee…

As of Sept. 1, FutureBrand Coleman’s name was officially changed to Fu-tureBrand.
The identity change reflects the integration of Coleman Group and FutureBrand to offer broad-based capabilities in corporate and consumer branding, according t…

Montreal, Canada-based Alcan Inc. has signed a leter of intent to sell its molded glass operations in Park Hills, MO; Mays Landing, Williamstown and Millville, NJ, as well as the company’s 46%-owned joint venture in Beijing, China to Glass Gro…

St. Louis, MO-based Alpha Plastics an-nounced that the company has a new name—Alpha Packaging. Alpha Plastics was founded 33 years ago as a manufacturer of plastic packaging for the health, beauty, nutritional and pharmaceutical industries. The…

Rexam Beauty & Closure’s global dis-pensing systems business unit is now known as Rexam Dispensing Systems.
The new name replaces Rexam Sofab and Rexam SMT and encompasses the unit’s three sites in Europe and the U.S.
Rexam Disp…

Watertown, CT-based Risdon-AMS plans to open a new 30,000 square foot plant in Reynosa, Mexico. The facility, located seven miles from McAllen, TX, will be used to assemble metal closures, lipsticks and mascara caps. The plant is expected to be fully…

The Pechiney Group’s various companies will showcase their latest offerings at the HBA Global Expo in New York this month. Techpack recently opened a new innovation center to give customers competitive and functional packaging. Cebal Americas h…